/*
 * psql - the PostgreSQL interactive terminal
 *
 * Copyright 2000 by PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/psql/variables.h,v 1.13 2003/08/04 00:43:29 momjian Exp $
 */

/*
 * This implements a sort of variable repository. One could also think of it
 * as cheap version of an associative array. In each one of these
 * datastructures you can store name/value pairs.
 */

#ifndef VARIABLES_H
#define VARIABLES_H

#define VALID_VARIABLE_CHARS "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"\
							 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "0123456789_"

struct _variable
{
	char	   *name;
	char	   *value;
	struct _variable *next;
};

typedef struct _variable *VariableSpace;


VariableSpace CreateVariableSpace(void);
const char *GetVariable(VariableSpace space, const char *name);
bool		GetVariableBool(VariableSpace space, const char *name);
bool		VariableEquals(VariableSpace space, const char name[], const char *opt);

/* Read numeric variable, or defaultval if it is not set, or faultval if its
 * value is not a valid numeric string.  If allowtrail is false, this will
 * include the case where there are trailing characters after the number.
 */
int GetVariableNum(VariableSpace space,
			   const char name[],
			   int defaultval,
			   int faultval,
			   bool allowtrail);


/* Find value of variable <name> among NULL-terminated list of alternative
 * options.  Returns VAR_NOTSET if the variable was not set, VAR_NOTFOUND
 * if its value did not occur in the list of options, or the number of the
 * matching option.  The first option is 1, the second is 2 and so on.
 */
enum
{
VAR_NOTSET = 0, VAR_NOTFOUND = -1};
int
SwitchVariable(VariableSpace space, const char name[],
			   const char *opt,...);

void		PrintVariables(VariableSpace space);

bool		SetVariable(VariableSpace space, const char *name, const char *value);
bool		SetVariableBool(VariableSpace space, const char *name);
bool		DeleteVariable(VariableSpace space, const char *name);

#endif   /* VARIABLES_H */
